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Hyundai Motor Group has released a video showing Atlas analyzing and learning soccer movements ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America, where the company plans to feature…
Across delivery, medicine, construction, agriculture, and defense, robots are moving from controlled pilots into real-world operations at the same time – a convergence economist Richard Baldwin has called "Globotics", the…
Hyundai Motor Group has established dedicated organizational units for its software-defined factory initiative and robot component procurement, as it advances toward deploying 25,000 Atlas humanoid robots across Hyundai and Kia…
China has launched the Humanoid Full Lifecycle Management Service Platform, assigning every humanoid robot a unique digital ID from production through recycling, with more than 28,000 robots across 200 models…
JD.com has announced the world's first humanoid robot auction as part of its 2026 618 shopping festival campaign, with Unitree Robotics and Noetix Robotics among companies already integrated into JD's…
Greek company Axl Imperial has developed MARK One, the country's first domestically built industrial humanoid robot, ahead of its debut at the Automation & Robotics Expo 2026 in Athens. The…
A Unitree humanoid robot fell twice and had to be dragged off stage while performing Michael Jackson's moonwalk at an event in Shenzhen, in a video that accumulated more than…
UK-based Humanoid has signed a manufacturing agreement with Bosch following a successful proof of concept at Bosch's logistics facility in Bühl, Germany, with Bosch to serve as contract manufacturer for…
Ouster has launched Rev8, the world's first mass-produced native color lidar sensor, capturing 3D spatial and color data simultaneously on a single chip, eliminating the need for separate camera calibration…
Elon Musk predicted at Forbes' Innovator 250 Celebration that between 100 million and one billion humanoid robots will arrive within five years and that digital intelligence will surpass all human…
Boston Dynamics has published a technical blog explaining how Atlas learned to lift and carry objects exceeding 100 pounds using reinforcement learning trained across millions of GPU-parallelized simulations, with the…
Hyundai Motor Group has outlined plans to deploy more than 25,000 Atlas humanoid robots across Hyundai and Kia manufacturing facilities, targeting 30,000-unit annual production capacity by 2028 and domestic U.S.…
Figure AI staged a 10-hour parcel sorting contest between an intern and its Figure 03 humanoid robot. The human won by 192 packages but finished with a near-broken forearm. Figure…
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT has launched a 50.4 billion won program to develop a domestic AI humanoid platform for medical and caregiving settings, with LG Electronics, KAIST,…
A video of a Unitree humanoid and an EngineAI robot trading punches and kicks in a San Francisco Bay Area storefront has gone viral, billed by organizers as the first…